Melmoth (2018)

Perry’s darkest book yet adds a new element to her dark palette: body horror. The titular Melmoth is a 2,000-yearold woman doomed to wander the earth on bleeding feet, watching acts of suffering. Helen, a quiet, studious girl living in Prague, is the latest to fall under her spell. The story is a feminist reinvention of Charles Maturin’s 1820 gothic novel.